Expanding our Typology of Conjoined Comparatives(joint work with Margit Bowler (University of Manchester) & Octavio León Vázquez (CIESAS))Zoom link: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/95703088970?pwd=TENsT2EraFZTQXFvMG9xRTBtaXpQZz09Meeting ID: 957 0308 8970Passcode: 372159Please note: non-UCLA attendees should RSVP to linguist@humnet.ucla.edu in order to be admitted to the talk. AbstractConjoined comparatives have traditionally been described as involving two conjoined clauses, one containing the target comparison and the...

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**UPDATE: Starting 15 minutes earlier than usual due to a logistical complication.**How children are and aren’t like adults when interpreting pronouns: A computational cognitive modeling investigationInterpreting pronouns in context is a complex linguistic task, especially when cues to a pronoun’s intended interpretation conflict. Children haveto learn to interpret pronouns like adults do, and computational cognitive modeling...

We are pleased to welcome Michelle Yuan (UC San Diego) as part of theUCLA Linguistics Colloquium Series. This talk will be given in person.Title: Morphological conditions on chain resolution: Inuktitut noun incorporation revisitedAbstract: Previous research on the Copy Theory of Movement has suggested that therealization of movement chains may be regulated by morphological well-formednessconditions governing...

Linguistic Productivity in Neural Networks: Representation and Inductive BiasA fundamental fact about human language is its productivity: speakers are able to understand and produce forms different from those that they have previously encountered. Linguists typically account for this fact by positing abstract grammars that characterize structural representations for an infinity of possible forms. At the...

computational, syntax